Re: Support building OpenJDK on Windows using MSYS2 and MinGW-w64 GCC?

2017-11-05 Thread David Holmes
Hi Andrew, Check the build-dev archives for October for a thread "Building OpenJDK9 on MSYS2". This is actively being worked on. David On 5/11/2017 9:26 AM, Andrew Sun wrote: Hi everyone, I'm just wondering if OpenJDK could be modified to build on Windows using MSYS2 (free Windows developme

Re: Support building OpenJDK on Windows using MSYS2 and MinGW-w64 GCC?

2017-11-05 Thread Andrew Sun
Okay, but MinGW-w64 offers much of the same headers and functions that the Windows SDK includes. The goal of MinGW-w64 is to track as many Windows APIs as possible, which includes those found in the Windows SDK, and implement them in GCC, so that instead of the Windows SDK, GCC can be used. The sec